Definite Quotes

423 Definite quotes by 340 unique authors

In the course of time I have learned to tramp about coral reefs, twenty to thirty feet under water, so unconcernedly that I can pay… — William Beebe
Palaeontological research exhibits, beyond question, the phenomenon of provinces in time, as well as provinces in space. Moreover, all our knowledge of organic remains teaches… — Edward Forbes
Nuclear weapons are so destructive and ballistic missiles are so swift, that any substantially increased possibility of their use or any sudden change in their… — John F. Kennedy
Freedom does not consist in any dreamt-of independence from natural laws, but in the knowledge of these laws, and in the possibility this gives of… — Friedrich Engels
The transfinite numbers are in a certain sense themselves new irrationalities and in fact in my opinion the best method of defining the finite irrational… — Georg Cantor
What I assert and believe to have demonstrated in this and earlier works is that following the finite there is a transfinite (which one could… — Georg Cantor
Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind. — James Mark Baldwin
When we are not engaged in thinking about some definite problem, we usually spend about 95 percent of our time thinking about ourselves. Now, if… — Dale Carnegie
The image of the presence, whatever it was, waiting there for him to go -this image had not yet been so concrete for his nerves… — Henry James
There can never be two or more equivalent electrons in an atom, for which in a strong field the values of all the quantum numbers… — Wolfgang Pauli
The #‎ Divine incarnates only in the individual -He or It overshadows the group. The supreme responsibility always lies with the individual. At the exact… — Dane Rudhyar
What really intrigues me is that the totality of all possible Nows of any definite kind has a very special structure. You can think of… — Julian Barbour
Anxiety is not fear, being afraid of this or that definite object, but the uncanny feeling of being afraid of nothing at all. It is… — William Barrett
Avoid taking a definite stand on great public issues either in the Senate or before the people. Bend your energies towards making friends of key… — Quintus Tullius Cicero
Another discovery which came out of my investigation was the fact that when one gives his or her order to produce a definite result and… — Alexander Graham Bell
I believe that the sum total of the energy of mankind is not to bring us down but to lift us up, and that is… — Mahatma Gandhi
... what you need more than anything in life is a definite position. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
All the worth which the human being possesses, all spiritual reality, he possesses only through the State. . . For Truth is the unity of… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Slowly, and in spite of anything we Americans do or do not do, it looks a little as if you and some other good people… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
All four Gospels agree in giving us a picture of a very definite personality. One is obliged to say, "Here was a man. This could… — H.G. Wells
The success of a party means little more than that the Nation is using the party for a large and definite purpose. It seeks to… — Woodrow Wilson
A sahib has got to act like a sahib; he has got to appear resolute, to know his own mind and do definite things. — George Orwell
The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere, so that his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and a point of… — George Santayana
It is so often on the name of a misdeed that a life goes to pieces, not the nameless and personal action itself, which was… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Chance acquaintances are sometimes the most memorable, for brief friendships have such definite starting and stopping points that they take on a quality of art,… — William Saroyan

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